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Joan R.

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2023

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Unfinished Business

Joan R.

Submitted to Contest #321

Being a ghost sucked.Yuki watched the morning traffic speed by from her perch on the back of a park bench. She sighed, crossing her legs and tapping her other foot on the seat. The office workers, grocery store checkers, and delivery drivers had no idea how lucky they were. They had places to be, business to be about, deadlines. And Yuki had flat-lined.She'd been a ghost for about two months now and was bored out of her mind. Being a ghost hadn't always been boring. At first, it had been terrifying. She'd been shocked when she sat up in the ...

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The Ballad of Janet, a retelling of the Ballad of Tam Lin

Joan R.

Submitted to Contest #320

(sensitive content warning: violence and sexual coercion) At least the trees had stopped gossiping about him. But the brooks were more than happy to take up the task. They cackled away, gushing over water-polished stones and whispering under fallen logs. Laughing at him. Mocking him.We know why you are here.Tam breathed out and leaned his head against the mossy boulder marking the edge of Carterhaugh Woods. Rosebushes surrounded it, the only things with any color as far as the eye could see. The only things that felt alive.Another lie, of...

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